There was a look about you both that I took to mean that things were going on well." "Yes, George.

At first, when she told me that you had told her about that affair at Delhi, I felt that there was really no occasion for you to have said anything about it; but it did me a great deal of good.

She made much more of it than there was any occasion for; but, you know, when women are inclined to take a pleasant view of a thing, they will magnify molehills into mountains." "I thought that it would do good, Major.

I don't mean that it would do you any good, but that it would do good generally.

I had to tell the other story, and that came naturally with it; and, at any rate, she could not but see that there was a deal of difference between the nature of the man who had been so good to me, and that of that scoundrel." "That is just the effect it did have.